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What is to be said of an art show that features a diverse assemblage of objects that include a one-legged demigod, a squirming pile of hairless pink critters, a translucent egg carton, a non-utilitarian broom, a bug-eyed astronaut helmet in silver and gold, and the work of a minimalist who attempts to treat science and mysticism as parallel routes to enlightenment?

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Nathan Collins, an award-winning investigative reporter and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, has joined the staff of The New Bedford Light to cover the fishing industry, ocean and maritime research, and the blue economy.

Report for America corps member Nathan Collins joins The Light as an investigative reporter on the Oceans beat.

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Gov. Maura Healey signed the $63.4 billion annual budget Thursday, coming nine days into the new fiscal year that’s poised to inflict major financial turmoil as a federal law reshapes public benefit programs.

The signed fiscal year 2027 budget was delivered to Secretary of State Bill Galvin’s office just before 2 p.m., according to a spokesperson.

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Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, makes the announcement in a video on X that election monitors will be sent to New Bedford and several other nationwide jurisdictions. Credit: Screenshot, X

The U.S. Department of Justice is dispatching election monitors to New Bedford, one of at least 15 nationwide jurisdictions singled out b...


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